History

Applications Open: - Friday 28th November 2025

Applications Close: - Friday 6 February 2026 - Please note - If you do not complete your application fully by the deadline of Friday 6 February 2026, we may not be able to consider it until August when GCSE results are published.

How to Apply:

Internal students - Applications to join our Sixth Form, via Applicaa, can be made via this link Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend (applicaa.com). PLEASE NOTE that you should use an e-mail address that you check regularly as the Applicca system will contact you with updates about your application.

External students - Year 11 Students from other schools applying to Mayfield Grammar School should apply via KentChoices using this link - https://www.kentprospectus.co.uk/login. Please note - After sending your application, you'll receive a welcome email from Applicaa asking for further information.

If you applied to us before the deadline but have not heard from us for a while please bear with us, we are working through the applications and will get back to you with our decision and advice as soon as we can. We will continue to send messages via Applicaa so please logon from time to time to check if we need some additional information from you

Applications After the deadline

Students who are interested in applying to Mayfield Grammar School for Sixth Form but have missed our application process can contact us once they have their GCSE results in August. After the publication of GCSE examinations results in August we ask that you make an appointment to discuss your application with the Sixth Form team. You need to call 01474 352896 or email admissions@mgsg.kent.sch.uk. Please check you have met our entry criteria for the subjects you want to study and read our Options Booklet under the Sixth Form tab on our website for our general entry criteria. If you meet our criteria, please get in touch, and bring your original documents for GCSE Results Summary and Birth Certificate as ID when you are offered an appointment.

Entry Requirements: -

Entry to the Sixth Form is dependent on demonstrating achievements which show general breadth of ability as well as depth in the specific courses chosen for study in the Sixth Form. For this reason you will need to have achieved all the following:

1. A minimum of 6 GCSEs at Grade 5 and above, preferably on the higher papers, in discrete subjects, with the exception of Combined Science, which counts as two subjects.

2. Grade 5 or above in GCSE English and GCSE Mathematics.

3. To have met the requirements of the individual subjects that you intend to study at A Level/Level 3, which are all, with the exception of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Languages, a minimum of Grade 6 at GCSE on the Higher papers. This is essential.

Essential skills

The ability to analyse large amounts of information from primary and secondary material and reproduce this in cogent and focused arguments.

Year 1

British History – The study of the development of the modern British state from a country struggling to win a small war in 1906 and then avoids a Civil War, arguably thanks to the intervention of the First World War. The year concludes with the onset of an economic depression having the Liberal welfare reforms, the challenges in Ireland, the campaign for female suffrage, the growth of the Labour Party and the impact of the First World War. Did Britain benefit from the First World War?

American History – This course begins by evaluating the extent to which America was able to heal the divisions which had been wrought by slavery and civil war. We look at the corruption, ineffective government and economic growth which characterise the period 1865 to 1890 and then go on to examine the changes in politics, society and America’s foreign role which culminated in it achieving great power status by 1920.

Coursework – Students complete a research essay of around 4000 words which covers a one-hundred year period of time focusing on the Tudor dynasty. Students look at the strength of the Tudor monarchs & consider the key reasons for instability.

Year 2

British History – We look at the enormous impact of the Great Depression on 1930s Britain and evaluate whether the label “the Hungry Thirties” is accurate to describe the period. We go on to analyse the consequences of the Second World War and the social and economic changes which led to the creation of the welfare state and the post-war consensus.

American History – We look at the period between 1920 and 1975, starting with the economic and social policies of FDR’s New Deal and the cultural changes which characterised the “Roaring Twenties” and the 1930s. We examine the divisions in American society during this time and the USA’s subsequent role during the Second World war and as leader of the Free World during the Cold war. We complete the course by analysing the divisions and reforms of the 1960s and America’s consolidation as a superpower by 1975.

Grade 6 in GCSE History.

University requirements

A level History’s academic demands and standing means that it is classified as a ‘facilitating subject’ by the Russell group universities. Offers to study History at university are traditionally in the range: A*AA (Cambridge, Durham), AAA (Oxford [+HAT test], Bristol, King’s College London), AAB (Royal Holloway London, Southampton, Sussex), ABB (Leicester, Swansea), BBB (Essex, Kent)

Links to Further Education

History; International History; Politics, Economics, Philosophy; Economic History; Social History; Product Design; Architecture; Classic Civilization; History and Fashion; Design Cultures; Anthropology and History or Art; Archaeology and History

Links to Careers

Business Management; Civil Servant; Law; Politics; Human Resources; Writing; Journalism; Teacher; Architect; Design; Economist; Planning; Research; Archaeology; Restoration